so .. we have to be carefull what we buy .. more difficult than buy something 1938 .. where you could be sued for buying electronic parts which could enable you to hear other Radio programms than "göbbels-schnauze"
never buy more than one cutter-knive at one time, or you could be a possi ble suspect for mass-murdering ...lol
Roger
Stanislav Sinyagin schrieb:
From: Martin Ebnoether ventilator@semmel.ch
All that is needed to take Skype down is an automatic windows update of some thousand computers.
Remember last summer? http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070819
hey Venty, long time no see :)
if you remember, back in 2003-2004 there were viruses which knocked down hundreds of thousands of windows PCs. So what, we're still using that :)
Well, you maybe - I don't ;-) But then, I also didn't use Windows in 2003, either... Nowadays, the viruses don't knock down the Windows-boxes, they just use them as Spam-Zombies or attack-drones or whatever the people that rent them want to use them for.
If the tool serves my needs, I don't really care if it's open source - I'm not going to compile anything on my desktop anyway. And if it collects any marketing stats, so what, everyone is doing that, and we're helping them (Coop Supercard for example).
I don't have any of those, either.
There's nothing bad about companies knowing better what I might buy from them :-)
I think you are oversimplifying and trivializing what these databases can be used for. Nowadays, these giant databases of consumer buying-behavior are probably also used to find potential terrorists. "Who bought box-cutters and what did they buy with them?" "Who bought box-cutters only?" "Who bought the other items alone that the people buying box-cutters and other items bought?"
It's hilarious, but that's how some people actually believe the war against terror can be won.
Also, I think you should do some reading regarding the Skype application. I think that if it wasn't for its widespread use, most AV-programs would consider it "malware". The executable itself is packed and encrypted and actively tries to avoid debugging/reverse-engineering by in-memory debuggers. The communication itself is encrypted with an unknown encryption-method. And of course, yes, no source code is available (for the general public).
I did sign up for an account and used it for a few times - but just because I didn't have time to setup my own Jabber server and experiment with iChat ;-) I've got a _very_ bad feeling using this app - it's just scary.
Rainer
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